lift
/lɪft/ · lift
noun
- An act of lifting or raising. She felt a sudden lift when the balloon rose into the sky.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip. He gave me a lift to the train station.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator. Take the lift to the fourth floor.
verb
- To raise or rise. The fog lifted after sunrise.
- To steal. Someone lifted my wallet from the table.
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise. The student lifted paragraphs from the article without citation.
Did you know? In British English, 'lift' is the common term for what Americans call an 'elevator', a usage that dates back to the 19th‑century railway lifts.